Dr. Carl Gossett is accustomed to emergencies — he has overseen the training of young ER doctors at both John Peter Smith, Fort Worth’s public hospital, and Scott & White in Temple.

Now he’s facing an emergency of a very different sort: The Texas Medical Board alleges that he “manufactured false records and lied to DEA [U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration] investigators.”

The board, which has the power to revoke his license, also says Gossett has been accused of “abusive behavior toward patients at three different hospitals.” For example, he wrote a prescription for an “extremely active” youngster that said, “Apply large paddle to bottom of child anytime he needs it.”

Here’s more detail from the medical board’s recent filing before an administrative law judge: Gossett ordered “very large amounts of hydrocodone and other controlled substances,” prescribed them to himself and a family member, and had wholesalers deliver them to his home. He “prescribed more than 900 pills of opiods to this family member in a one-year period,” but the relative denied taking so many pills.

Further, he “submitted records for this same family member that were on a hospital form from a hospital for which [Gossett] did not work during the time period of the purported examinations. Hospital staff confirmed to DEA investigators that the family member had never been treated at their hospital.”